#(this also applies with platonic qijiu or SJ just Not during his turns but we know *he's* not putting up with Binghe)

[fluffypurpleglitterdemon]

#svsss#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#shen jiu#scum villain#scum villain's self saving system#shen jiu: what do you MEAN there has been a chronicle of my gruesome demise this entire time?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT BEAST KILLS US???#shen yuan: oh did you read it. did you finally read the thing I've been telling you read#forever? did you? jackass#shen jiu: well fine then I can see why we should not be hitting this hornet's nest and obviously trying to kill him won't work#shen jiu: but I draw the line at seducing him that's your job just do it while I'm not there and don't tell me about any of it#shen yuan: ...we're who the what now? (via @sunderwight)

Scum Villain AU where Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu transmigrate by swapping lives (i.e. Shen Yuan wakes up in Shen Qingqiu's body on Qing Jing Peak, post-fever, while Shen Jiu wakes up in Shen Yuan's body in a hospital in modern China) but it doesn't quite work right.

The system glitches or something and they end up having to jointly time share their lives. Every time a certain moon phase or something (cyclical) comes around they abruptly switch back.

So they spend the entire time trying to undo everything the other one has been up to while everyone around them is just desperately attempting to figure out wtf is going on. Shen Yuan does the skinner quest and stops Luo Binghe's abuse, and Shen Jiu gets a job with a rival company and starts showing up Shen Yuan's brothers. Then they switch back and Shen Jiu is like "it's woodshed o'clock for the beast" and Shen Yuan resigns. Then they switch back again and Shen Yuan saves Liu Qingge's life and gets poisoned defending Luo Binghe, and Shen Jiu creates his own start-up and blackmails his eldest brother about the mistress he's just uncovered. Then they switch back and Shen Yuan gets his brother and his sister-in-law into couples counseling and Shen Jiu embarks on a quest to either cure himself without Liu Qingge's help or die trying.

Eventually they just start leaving bitchy messages for one another to find and doing things that won't cause lasting damage but are incredibly petty. Shen Yuan keeps trying to tell Shen Jiu to read PIDW but Shen Jiu takes one look at his merch-filled bachelor pad and immediately decides that his opinions aren't worth anything, so it takes him a while to actually do it (he is really mad about this when he finally opens the novel and it turns out to be extremely relevant information).